Russell Baillie

One of Melanie Lynskey’s latest roles harks back to Heavenly Creatures while another has her married to Leonardo DiCaprio. by RUSSELL BAILLIE Melanie Lynskey doesn’t mind her past catching up with her. It has helped her role in Yellowjackets, the…

A famous Kiwi director lends his support to a new comedy about four Native American teens looking to escape rural Oklahoma. Taika Waititi’s name is on Reservation Dogs as co-creator and executive producer, and he co-wrote the fi rst episode. So, it’s…

There's more to Wellington Paranormal star Mike Minogue than just being the hit comedy's deadpan straight man. He's helping to create films and shows, including a new talkback-radio satire. By Russell Baillie, NZ Listener. It's the day after filming…

Rosamund Pike's crisp voice is on the line from somewhere in the Czech Republic. There, the actor is making fantasy epic tele­vision series The Wheel of Time, based on the 14-book series by Robert Jordan. She plays Moiraine Damodred, who, she says,…

Acclaimed screenwriter Anthony McCarten moves from Queen to bishop in a project pondering the relationship between Pope Francis and predecessor Pope Benedict. At the end of The Two Popes – that’s the book he wrote, not his same-named film or play…

Cheers to 50 Years was meant to be TVNZ's grand gesture celebrating being our national broadcaster - in various incarnations dating from the NZBC days - for five decades. Supposedly, it had a couple of generations' worth of collective small screen…

Jeff Lindsay is the Miami crime novelist who behind the series about sociopath vigilante serial killer Dexter Morgan, which has inspired the hit television series Dexter. A phone call finds him in his summer residence in the mountains of North…